Supreme Court candidate Schimel (R) tells voters he's 'not political'.
At an event hosted at Marquette University earlier this month, a member of the audience told Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, the conservative candidate for state Supreme Court, that she was “a bit afraid” of him being elected.
The woman said she’d been sexually assaulted when she was 19 and was grateful that at the time she was able to “control whether my body and life were upended with an unwanted pregnancy.”
Throughout the campaign, Schimel, a former Republican state attorney general, has been attacked for his position on the legality of abortion — an issue that is likely to come before the Court after the election on April 1.
A currently pending case before the Court will determine the validity of an 1849 law that conservatives say bans abortion in the state. The ban is now on hold after a circuit court judge said it doesn’t apply to medical abortions, but at an event last summer, Schimel said he supports the idea that the 1849 law bans abortion.
When abortion comes up during the campaign, Schimel acknowledges his own anti-abortion views, which he says are informed in part by becoming an adoptive father to two daughters, but he says the issue should be decided by Wisconsin’s voters, not a judge.
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